Daily Tech News 4 August 2025

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Did Craigslist really kill newspapers? (Poynter)

Yes. Sort of. Maybe. But also mostly no.

Newspapers had been in slow decline for thirty years when Craigslist launched in 1995.

What the site did certainly do was accelerate a process started by the newspapers themselves.

Tech News

FCC chairman Brendan Carr is Literally Worse Than Hitler. (The Verge) (archive site)

His crime?

Nobody watches Stephen Colbert.

Constant outrage must be really tough on brain cells.
The acquisition of Commodore by Christian "Perifractic" Simpson and his backers has been completed. (Tom's Hardware)

I don't have any particular association with the classic 8-bit Commodore machines - I was an Amiga kid - but this is still welcome news.

I wonder if FPGA hardware-emulated Amigas might be in the works in the future through a collaboration with Amiga Inc. and Cloanto, which publishes the software-level emulator Amiga Forever.
Early versions of Microsoft Recall were pulled from distribution when it was discovered they collected all your most sensitive information in one database where it was convenient for hackers to steal it. It still does that. (The Register)

Do not want.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: All in all it's just another three cue in the wall.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2025 04:31 AM (1o8D5)

2 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 04, 2025 04:32 AM (9vYpt)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)

4 Out for late neighborhood fast-walk. Busy day today and tomorrow.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2025 04:32 AM (1o8D5)

5 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at August 04, 2025 04:33 AM (NC/it)

6 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 04, 2025 04:33 AM (jVYPw)

7 Newspapers have declined for one simple reason: their content sucks.

Content is still king. Good content will bring people back, or keep them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 04, 2025 04:35 AM (WeMfR)

8 A real honest-to-goodness tech question. As I understand it: If you open an email and then click on a link or download an attachment, you risk infection. If you merely open an email and then delete the email, no risk? Thank you!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

9 Fen, regarding James Woods:

BizPacReview: https://tinyurl.com/4bha6332

Woods tweeted back in 2017:

"I was for years, until #Clinton was impeached. Every single #Democrat without exception stood behind a convicted perjurer. That was the end."

I guess that's your answser.

Posted by: RickZ at August 04, 2025 04:36 AM (gKDq2)

10 8 A real honest-to-goodness tech question. As I understand it: If you open an email and then click on a link or download an attachment, you risk infection. If you merely open an email and then delete the email, no risk? Thank you!
Posted by: m

Generally speaking, you'll be fine with just viewing the email and deleting it.

If there's a security failure on that level you will hear about it on this blog. It has happened before, but not for years.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 04, 2025 04:38 AM (BLOW1)

11 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

12 Newspapers have declined for one simple reason: their content sucks.

Content is still king. Good content will bring people back, or keep them.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 04, 2025 04:35 AM (WeMfR)

I don't know about that. Information is at hand faster than a daily can provide, and certainly a weekly.

Therell still be news, just not in formats we're used to.

Posted by: RickZ at August 04, 2025 04:38 AM (gKDq2)

13 Posted by: RickZ at August 04, 2025 04:36 AM

Thanks, Rick.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 04:39 AM (2GCMq)

14 Re: can my machine catch herpes.

https://is.gd/9TWYhi⅞

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 04, 2025 04:41 AM (9vYpt)

15 Re: can my machine catch herpes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 04, 2025 04:41 AM (9vYpt)

Is your machine dating a Dominion Voting Machine?

Posted by: RickZ at August 04, 2025 04:44 AM (gKDq2)

16 >>>… Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone

Indeed.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:45 AM (aURVT)

17 I know that we have people on here who say, "Why would anyone read a paper!?" I'm not sure if that's because of left wing journalism or because they don't want purchase a dead tree paper. Well, I read a . paper, because the NYP, at least, has some articles favorable to Trump and his agenda and also because they are strong supporters of Israel. Also, I like to do the word search on actual paper and I think probably too much screen time doesn't help my eyes. I don't want to read Jane Austen or the Bible online, either although I put up scripture selections from the Bible online

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 04:45 AM (2GCMq)

18 I do have a tech question. My screen jumps around a lot at this site. Anybody else have this problem and if so, what's to be done about it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 04:46 AM (2GCMq)

19 14 Re: can my machine catch herpes.

https://is.gd/9TWYhi⅞
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 04, 2025 04:41 AM (9vYpt)

A URL that ends in a fraction?

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)

20 >>The acquisition of Commodore

When I read Commodore, I think of the Commodores. Because I am of a certain age?

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 04:48 AM (aURVT)

21 guten morgen, horde

Disclaimer: All in all it's just another three cue in the wall.

Does this imply that the discussion from last tech thread should continue?

Posted by: clarence at August 04, 2025 04:48 AM (HEnIi)

22 In the early 2000's, after the Jayson Blair Scandal, I only bought the NYTimes for the crossword. A few years later, it wasn't even worth buying the Times for that, not at around $2 a day.

Posted by: RickZ at August 04, 2025 04:49 AM (gKDq2)

23 I watch the old movies where newspapers had a large building in the center of the city and the coming and going of reporters, informers and others and the paper put out several editions a day. Exciting days for the paper (Thinking Superman's editor) Now most existing papers are but a shadow of what was once a thriving business. Trying to beat the other newspaper in the city to sell today's news today. The newspaper in the nearby city is now printed in a far off city a 1000 miles away and I only see it in a grocery stores at the exit and its about 8 paged of mostly canned stories from last week. I wonder if the NYTimes puts out a 4 pound Sunday edition like they use to. Time marches on.

Posted by: Colin at August 04, 2025 04:50 AM (wlQdF)

24 Good morning, good people, from my Adirondacks.

May all your effort be rewarded with the maximum benefit available, and heartburn on a galactic scale for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 04, 2025 04:52 AM (hKoQL)

25 I thought that this was a really interesting article- well for people who read the Bible anyway Instead of always asking"What does this mean for me? " To ask " What might it have meant for God.?" He discusses thus is context to Chronicles which are generally not thought of as the most enthralling books of Scripture . Caveat: Author doing Op-Ed is an Assemblies of God pastor:

https://tinyurl.com/3drdbjrt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 04:58 AM (2GCMq)

26 Forever Faithful- A devotional on Isaiah 40:6-11:

https://tinyurl.com/25j9yenh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:02 AM (2GCMq)

27 >>>FCC chairman Brendan Carr is Literally Worse Than Hitler. (The Verge) (archive site)

What's great about that author is that she's not biased at all:

Paramount negotiated a specious anti-speech lawsuit from President Donald Trump. Then, Paramount paid Trump $16 million in settlement money

There’s no reasonable way to spin the combination of Trump and Carr’s actions except as an attack on the First Amendment

the stakes are the freedom to choose what you watch

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)

28 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! Yes, it's Monday again, but remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:06 AM (omVj0)

29 The acquisition of Commodore
*
When I read Commodore, I think of the Commodores. Because I am of a certain age?
Posted by: m at August 04, 2025

***
I think of Commodore Decker from Trek. Remove thyself from my lawn, forthwith.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:07 AM (omVj0)

30 Yael Eckstein- from the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews write about " From a place of love" and a passage from Deuteronomy 1

https://tinyurl.com/p3abnwjx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:09 AM (2GCMq)

31 The local public schools are opening again already! They are really chipping away at summer vacation. Though now, the kids have a fall break, a spring break, and school shuts down whenever the temps drop below 35 F. or if the school A/C shuts down, so they probably have two or three weeks' worth of "breaks."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:10 AM (omVj0)

32 “ Generally speaking, you'll be fine with just viewing the email and deleting it”

Make sure you have “download images” or whatever it’s called set to off. Malicious folks can insert a 1 pixel sized image tag that actually can allow executable script to run. Or at the very least identify you. Otherwise 100% agree

Posted by: Gman at August 04, 2025 05:12 AM (DFJYi)

33 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 04, 2025 05:15 AM (sAmhv)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2025 05:16 AM (tljrc)

35 Sandman has finally come.
Goodnight all, have a blessed day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 04, 2025 05:21 AM (K9XnW)

36 The Verge is raging at the night. And day. And random dead possums. How's that site still vomiting out content? It's an online version of Jonestown.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 04, 2025 05:22 AM (sAmhv)

37 Yeah, here I am, up earlier than I planned. Woke up at 3:15 and just couldn't drift back off. So, coffee, and shortly I will feed the furry thugs and then me.

Today I bring Stirling to the vet for his rabies shot and flea treatment, and I'll get another three-month treatment for Dagny, so the two of them will start level. Linda suggested I should use some flea spray on the carpets in the car, just to be safe. The rest of the week? Got a short story I'm working on, and I intend to continue walking in the early morning so I don't lose too much of my fitness whilst I recover from the surgery.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:27 AM (omVj0)

38 I was horrified by Pink Floyd’s “ The Wall” when my younger brother introduced me to Pink Floyd. That was largely because my high school population had seemingly become more rebellious and anti-academic in my brother’s era. Now, with reports’s of “woke” high school leadership, I love the song.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 04, 2025 05:31 AM (1FEc1)

39 Oh the horrors, The school I went to didn't have A/C back in the day. Now the same building has new windows and of course A/C. I use to like sitting in class when the teacher opened the big windows and you could smell the freshly mowed lawn outside. It does seem like weekly days off have multiplied. It use to be just Easter vacation, now its winter recess and spring recess, weeks long. and they get long breaks at Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc.

Posted by: Colin at August 04, 2025 05:37 AM (wlQdF)

40 Oh the horrors, The school I went to didn't have A/C back in the day. Now the same building has new windows and of course A/C. I use to like sitting in class when the teacher opened the big windows and you could smell the freshly mowed lawn outside. It does seem like weekly days off have multiplied. It use to be just Easter vacation, now its winter recess and spring recess, weeks long. and they get long breaks at Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc.
Posted by: Colin at August 04, 2025

***
Same here. The windows would be open, and as April slid into May you could smell the flowers and you knew summer vacation was coming at last.

School was such a long slog in those days. Labor Day off, then nothing until Thanksgiving; then Christmas; two days for Mardi Gras here; Good Friday, and then the death march until the last day in May. I considered I often learned more interesting stuff reading the encyclopedia and watching the original Jeopardy! than I did sitting in class.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:42 AM (omVj0)

41 And a happy Monday, August 4 to our RC posters. Today is the feast day of a great RC priest and confessor, St John Vianney who lived in France.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:43 AM (2GCMq)

42 It could be that a well edited daily newspaper would have a field day occupying the vaccuum created by the second-to-second din of rumor-mongering and future tense "news". If any paper were to get a reputation for creating solid, legitimate news that wasn't hot infotainment garbage, they could make a killing. There's a market for it out there, and literally nobody supplying it.

Really, just a couple pages of actual news from the previous day, coupled with a fairly robust editorial section headed by two level headed people of the MAGA or "Old School Democrat" persuasion to keep each other honest and prevent too much of an overt lunge into partisan rah-rah solipsism... it could be nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 05:45 AM (Dsfam)

43 In 2012 I happened to visit my grammar school building; it was open that Saturday for voting, and I wandered in. They have air-conditioned the place. The ground-floor auditorium was partitioned off for the voting that day, but it was recognizable.

Later it became a charter school and got a name change from "McDonogh," and now I think it's closed and is becoming condos or something. Tempus keeps on fugit-ing, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:46 AM (omVj0)

44 Hero dog helps save veteran from a stroke:

https://tinyurl.com/ucknnf8z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:48 AM (2GCMq)

45 We still have a couple of arts & entertainment papers, distributed free at coffee shops and restaurants. One reports on local and state politics; the other doesn't. I flick through them now and then, but I've never felt as though I belonged in this town or region, and I don't go to nightclubs or bars. So to me it's all kind of "Gee, these colorful natives have odd customs, don't they?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:49 AM (omVj0)

46 There's a weird parallel between newspapers and entertainment in general.

They lament the death of "superhero movies". Well... yeah. You hired retards and lunatics to start making them. They started sucking. People stopped going. Not really a mystery. Same goes for legacy tv properties like Doctor Who or whatever else. If you wreck it, they won't come.

Skinsuits, everywhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 05:51 AM (Dsfam)

47 And a happy Monday, August 4 to our RC posters. Today is the feast day of a great RC priest and confessor, St John Vianney who lived in France.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025

***
Miss Linda is Catholic. I wonder if she knows about this.

Linda was startled when we first knew each other, and I inquired if she (a New York State native) was Jewish. I'd asked only because so many students at the university where I worked and from which she'd graduated were, and are, Jewish, esp. the Northeasterners.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

48 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 05:45 AM (Dsfam

I think that’s what the NYP provides as people. A see from some of the content which J.J provides in the MR . I wouldn’t be reading it if it’s editorial content was just like the NYT,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:54 AM (2GCMq)

49 Skinsuits, everywhere.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 05:51 AM (Dsfam

Heck, now that i think of it, there's a lot that can be filed under the concept of "cultural brutalism". Ugly, boring and stupid on purpose aren't just for buildings anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2025 05:55 AM (Dsfam)

50 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

I would imagine she’s knows about him. He’s the patron saint for parish priests and was apparently so effective that thousands of people came to see him in his little church,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

51 Last Saturday night was the 31st Annual "White Linen" Night downtown. The art galleries in the Central Business District and nearby stay open late, offer wine and crackers, and people (often dressed in, you guessed it, white linen) wander around in the heat and listen to music from local bands. I'm surprised Miss Linda didn't want to go. Maybe she's getting tired of the ten-month summers here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

52 32 “ Generally speaking, you'll be fine with just viewing the email and deleting it”

Make sure you have “download images” or whatever it’s called set to off. Malicious folks can insert a 1 pixel sized image tag that actually can allow executable script to run. Or at the very least identify you. Otherwise 100% agree
Posted by: Gman at August 04, 2025 05:12 AM (DFJYi)

Thanks for this. And for the handy vocabulary!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

53 36 The Verge is raging at the night. And day. And random dead possums.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 04, 2025 05:22 AM (sAmhv)

LOL

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

54 G'Day everyone
Guess I will get moving and go to work

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2025 06:01 AM (+qU29)

55 And Wolfus- Miss Linda might like this since I’m guessing she’s a reader since she’s with you😊 it is about Flannery O’Connor and her RC faith and her writing. I am a big fan of her writing:

From the National Catholic Register:

https://tinyurl.com/mry8t57k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

56 FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 05:54 AM (2GCMq

Weird typo. What the NY Post provides as well”. Not “people “

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:03 AM (2GCMq)

57 Those brit kiddos in the Pink Floyd vid were pretty fashionable for the 70s

Posted by: Teaser at August 04, 2025 06:03 AM (c9+cC)

58 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 04, 2025 06:04 AM (XQo4F)

59 Hey Pixy

I have a WIN11 laptop with an HDMI port. Can I slave a 2nd monitor using an HDMI cable?

thnx and cheers

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 06:13 AM (AOsQT)

60 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 05:27 AM (omVj0)

You are very kind to you cats

I am glad you are working on a story and may the Lotd bless your recovery.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:16 AM (2GCMq)

61 I uploaded video of the new backyard kitties

Kitten found yesterday

https://tinyurl.com/BYKitten

Older kitty

1: https://tinyurl.com/BYCat01

2: https://tinyurl.com/BYCat02

Posted by: Joyenz at August 04, 2025 06:17 AM (sPQoU)

62 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Feeling like a dead duck.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:18 AM (WvZaB)

63
Loni Anderson....mort

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 04, 2025 06:19 AM (WsBrT)

64 62 Rejoinder: Feeling like a dead duck.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:18 AM (WvZaB)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 06:19 AM (aURVT)

65 21 Disclaimer: All in all it's just another three cue in the wall.

Does this imply that the discussion from last tech thread should continue?
Posted by: clarence at August 04, 2025 04:48 AM (HEnIi)

It's all one looooooong continuum.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 06:21 AM (aURVT)

66 Happy Monday, one and all. After a rather rough session with the orthopedist last week, the pain level in my knee is much more tolerable.

The article about Craigslist reminds me of The Simpsons episode where the Principal is at the 4H Club looking for Bart and wondering if he's the one who is out of touch.

The newspapers believed that they would be in power forever and that no one could possibly do things better than them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2025 06:22 AM (lXoJ5)

67 And Wolfus- Miss Linda might like this since I’m guessing she’s a reader since she’s with you😊 it is about Flannery O’Connor and her RC faith and her writing. I am a big fan of her writing:

From the National Catholic Register:

https://tinyurl.com/mry8t57k
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025

***
Very neat, Fen, thanks! I especially liked Flannery's comment about the local newspaper reviewer, who usually wrote about gardening: "They shouldn't have taken her away from her petunias." And also that criticism that makes you stop writing comes from the Devil.

I hadn't realized that while being published, she was subject to harsh criticism in her own time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:23 AM (omVj0)

68 It's International Owl Awareness Day. Do all you can to avoid being kidnapped by owls.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:23 AM (WvZaB)

69 Loni Anderson....mort
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 04, 2025

****
Nooooo!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:23 AM (omVj0)

70 60- sorry for all the typos.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:24 AM (2GCMq)

71 63 Loni Anderson....mort
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 04, 2025 06:19 AM (WsBrT)

She was 79.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 06:25 AM (aURVT)

72 Who's left from WKRP? Tim Reid and Jan Smithers, I think

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 04, 2025 06:29 AM (sAmhv)

73 Who's left from WKRP? Tim Reid and Jan Smithers, I think
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 04, 2025 06:29 AM (sAmhv)
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Gary Sandy is still around.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:29 AM (WvZaB)

74 G'mornin' everyone!

49 degrees, haze (smoke?), calm, woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 06:29 AM (dKEEs)

75 I am sorry you are feeling like a dead duck, Captain Obvious, but if a duck was dead would it feel anything? Anyway, I hope you feel better soon :

Here is a live duck story from North Yorkshire:

https://tinyurl.com/ycywbnew

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:30 AM (2GCMq)

76 tap tap tap

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 06:30 AM (AOsQT)

77 I am sorry you are feeling like a dead duck, Captain Obvious, but if a duck was dead would it feel anything? Anyway, I hope you feel better soon :

Here is a live duck story from North Yorkshire:

https://tinyurl.com/ycywbnew
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 06:30 AM (2GCMq)
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Nah, I'm fine. That was just a recognizable song hook from the '70s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:31 AM (WvZaB)

78 G'morning, all!

To the surprise of no-one, Rep Nancy Mace has announced that she will run for Governor of S.C.

https://tinyurl.com/2z5a5z3p

I do believe I shall pass on that choice.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2025 06:31 AM (a1415)

79 Random thought from chatting with one of the workers at the Red Cross and she brought up an interesting point about Ozzy Osbourne's last show.

"He was basically attending his own funeral." That made a lot of sense to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2025 06:33 AM (lXoJ5)

80 Just ordered an LED flashlight from Amazon, and they're giving me free shipping (even without that Prime business). You don't hafta tell me twice. I ordered some Pinaud Clubman Special Reserve aftershave and their talcum powder, both of which I use often. The SR is never in stores here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

81
And a happy Monday, August 4 to our RC posters. Today is the feast day of a great RC priest and confessor, St John Vianney who lived in France.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025

The Curé of Ars. Devoted much of his time to hearing Confessions. The patron saint of parish priests.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2025 06:35 AM (kkTda)

82 Everyone knows the biggest attraction to newspapers was (is) obituaries and comics.

And political cartoons, back when they were good.

Posted by: H at August 04, 2025 06:37 AM (2gjbv)

83 Loni Anderson....mort
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 04, 2025

****
Nooooo!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:23 AM (omVj0)

Bailey is still alive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)

84 Everyone knows the biggest attraction to newspapers was (is) obituaries and comics.

And political cartoons, back when they were good.
Posted by: H at August 04, 2025 06:37 AM (2gjbv
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Crossword puzzles.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:38 AM (WvZaB)

85
I wonder if the NYTimes puts out a 4 pound Sunday edition like they use to. Time marches on.
Posted by: Colin at August 04, 2025 04:50 AM (wlQdF)

Mumblety-mumble years ago, I'd buy the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the New Haven Register on Sundays. I'd come out of the news stand with about 10 pounds of newspaper under my arm.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2025 06:39 AM (kkTda)

86 And a happy Monday, August 4 to our RC posters. Today is the feast day of a great RC priest and confessor, St John Vianney who lived in France.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025
*
The Curé of Ars. Devoted much of his time to hearing Confessions. The patron saint of parish priests.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2025

***
He's a recent figure: eighteenth and nineteenth century. Somehow I always think all saints lived pre-1400 AD.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:39 AM (omVj0)

87 Good morning. Thx Pixy.
RIP Loni Anderson. I was a Bailey Quarters person, but by all accounts Loni was a very nice person.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 06:39 AM (9hqnJ)

88 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 04, 2025 06:40 AM (WvZaB)

89 Crossword puzzles.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Yus. I preferred the Jumble myself. Crosswords are something that frustrated me because I never knew 1/2 the answers.

Posted by: H at August 04, 2025 06:40 AM (2gjbv)

90 "Mumblety-mumble years ago, I'd buy the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the New Haven Register on Sundays. I'd come out of the news stand with about 10 pounds of newspaper under my arm."

And now...
It all is replaced by JJ's Morning Report.

A better product, at a better price.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2025 06:41 AM (a1415)

91 mornin yall. The Epoch Times is pretty close to a real newspaper. No comics though.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

92 I'd just like to point out the fact that there is no Sunday Morning Newspaper thread here at AOS.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2025 06:42 AM (XQo4F)

93 On cool side , almost feels mid September
First day shift all summer, but still won't be home until after Cafe.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2025 06:43 AM (+qU29)

94
Everyone knows the biggest attraction to newspapers was (is) obituaries and comics.

And political cartoons, back when they were good.
Posted by: H at August 04, 2025 06:37 AM (2gjbv)

And the sports section. Before it became just another instrument of "social justice".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2025 06:44 AM (kkTda)

95 At least three large volcanic eruptions in the last couple weeks on the Kamchatka peninsula. Seveluch has been erupting for weeks, one ending -ski went off the day after the earthquake, and one ending in -ov when off Sunday morning for the first time in 460 years. Fun times

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2025 06:44 AM (9hqnJ)

96 is this thing on

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 06:44 AM (AOsQT)

97 Colbert has a new gig lined up. He is going to play a late night talk show host on a sitcom. Comedy. That will be something new for him.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

98 Breakfast is done. 'Bout time I went to shave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

99
is this thing on
Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 06:44 AM (AOsQT)

We are aware of an outage in your area that is affecting 466 customers. Repair crews are assessing the situation. We estimate that service will be restored on or before 10/29 at 07:40 PM.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2025 06:47 AM (kkTda)

100 I'm not a talk show host but I play one on TV.

Posted by: Steven Colbert at August 04, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

101 Skip, did you see that there was a Top 20 on Bad Blue's Substack page yesterday?

https://tinyurl.com/3dbv7hmk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2025 06:54 AM (1o8D5)

102 The Epoch Times is pretty close to a real newspaper. No comics though.

True but the game section is a lot of fun. And they know that China is asshoe.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2025 06:55 AM (lXoJ5)

103 Kinda nice to be at a place in my life where I don't know or care what's on TV anymore. I stream what I want when I want without commercials. Also keeps me blissfully unaware of a lot of cultural trends. Maybe lots of people live this way now. Not sure.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2025 06:56 AM (XQo4F)

104

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 04, 2025 07:04 AM (5hfjS)

105 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 04, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

106 *hic*

No one gets a saving throw for ...

Sanity is overrated.

Posted by: clarence at August 04, 2025 07:07 AM (HEnIi)

107 @18/FenelonSpoke: "I do have a tech question. My screen jumps around a lot at this site. Anybody else have this problem and if so, what's to be done about it?"

Happening here too. Annoying.

I believe that it's the inserted posts from X, Instagram, Youtube, and other external web pages. There's a small spot for them inserted in-line on the main page. Those expand to a "placeholder" box, and then resize to their final size once the data comes down from whatever site they're at and render here. This process causes everything below those placeholders to jump around until the inserted foreign content has finished resizing.

What's the fix? There isn't an easy one. I just sit back and let the content settle down for about 10 seconds then go back to reading the new content. I've also got in the habit of making note of what comment # I've read just before I refresh the page so I know I'm starting to read at the right point.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

108 @99/Hadrian the Seventh: "We are aware of an outage in your area that is affecting 466 customers. Repair crews are assessing the situation. We estimate that service will be restored on or before 10/29 at 07:40 PM."

That's an even worse timeframe than:
https://youtu.be/9v-33jcEDk4

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2025 07:16 AM (O7YUW)

109 that's my theory, too, G&R

I see it happen a lot at Insty too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 04, 2025 07:18 AM (dKEEs)

110 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks; It is annoying, isn't it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 07:20 AM (71T5/)

111 I have a WIN11 laptop with an HDMI port. Can I slave a 2nd monitor using an HDMI cable?

thnx and cheers
Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 06:13 AM (AOsQT)

Just plug it into an HDMI port on a monitor or TV and it should work.

If you are using a TV make sure the “Source/Input” is set to the right HDMI port.

Then you might have to go into Windows Settings in the Display section and decide if you want to use dual screens, or have the TV or monitor display the same as your laptop screen, which it defaults too.

You can also adjust which side your second monitor is in relation to your laptop so you can slide the mouse over to the correct side (left or right) if using it in dual screen.

Nice hash, AOsQT, BTW.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2025 07:20 AM (6ydKt)

112 >Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2025 07:20 AM (6ydKt)
---

Thank you.

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2025 07:21 AM (AOsQT)

113 Today's virtue signaling sign seen while on a ride:

"Science saves lives"

Well, yes. It does, applied properly except when it didn't during Covid.

I guess this is a knock on religious faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2025 07:23 AM (71T5/)

114 https://tinyurl.com/289rn7pb+

People snark about interest rates but the graph is "married and homeowners". I wonder how much the married part brings it down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

115 What's the fix? There isn't an easy one. I just sit back and let the content settle down for about 10 seconds then go back to reading the new content. I've also got in the habit of making note of what comment # I've read just before I refresh the page so I know I'm starting to read at the right point.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

There’s not much you can do for embedded X posts.

X takes a long time to load in embeds, Elon trying to save money probably.

If you’re on a slow internet connection, like 4G on a phone, it gets worse.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2025 07:27 AM (6ydKt)

116 Also keeps me blissfully unaware of a lot of cultural trends. Maybe lots of people live this way now. Not sure.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2025 06:56 AM (XQo4F)

Yes, the vast majority live this way now, the younger even more than the older.

This is why Network TV is dying, and will soon be dead. Except for sporting events, no one does “appointment tv anymore. CBS is the first to start to crack and admit this - the rest will follow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2025 07:27 AM (WEiXt)

117 There’s not much you can do for embedded X posts.

I tell my browser to not download them and then click on them if I'm interested.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

118 JJ is nood. Come and mock the formatting before he fixes it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

119 I was an Amiga kid
Atari, all the way! (We had an 800 and a 400, and I had a photocopy of De Re Atari. Modules, cassettes, and eventually floppy disks.)

Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2025 07:32 AM (Mi0CH)

120 @110/FenelonSpoke: You're welcome, and yes, it is most definitely annoying.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2025 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

121 I tell my browser to not download them and then click on them if I'm interested.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

Certainly a possibility for the technically inclined.

You can also get Add-Ons or Plug-Ins for a browser to control that type of stuff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

122 The Amiga kids were the first signs of retarded elitism.

Posted by: Fisht at August 04, 2025 10:03 AM (BHEHK)

123 The Amiga will rise again!

... okay, no it won't. But it should, damn it.

Posted by: quiet lurker at August 04, 2025 10:05 AM (fuMh5)

124 123 The Amiga will rise again!

... okay, no it won't. But it should, damn it.
Posted by: quiet lurker at August 04, 2025 10:05 AM (fuMh5)

heh

Posted by: m at August 04, 2025 11:26 AM (aURVT)

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